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SANITARY PAD FOR WATER CLOSET SEATS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 28- 19!!- 1,283,533. Patented Nov. 5, 1916.

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HELEN E. LEIGHTON, OF BOSTON, MASSAOHUSETTB.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1918 Application filed September 28, 1817. Serial No,193,653.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HELEN E. LmoHToN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Boston, in the county of Suifolk, in the State ofMassachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inSanitary Pads for Water-Closet Seats, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to provide a protective and sanitarycover for water closet seats and. more particularly for the seats ofublic closets which are used promiscuous y and my improvement consistsessentially oi a pad made up of a plurality of tissue, or semi-tissue,sheets which are molded to conform to the contour o molded seat; thearrangement being such that the upper sheet of 'said pad may be readilytorn off and destroyed after having been once used, thus leaving thenext exposed top sheet of the pad ready for use when needed.

My invention is illustrated in and by the annexed drawings in whichFigure 1 is a perspective view of a water closet seat showing a pad' ofmy present improved form and construction mounted on the said seat. Fig.2 is a central, vertical, sectional view of the water closet bowl andseat with the ad mounted thereon and Fig. 3 is a relatively enlarged topview of the said Referring to these drawings, the letter a indicates awater closet seat of ordinary molded construction, mounted upon the bowlI). My improved sanitary pad is indicated as a whole by the letter a andit consists of a number 0 sheets which are cut to substantially the sameshape as the said seat but somewhat large; the outer and inner edges ofthe pad thus provided being slitted grasped and torn ofl radially, as atd, and conformed, under pressure, to lap around or rather under, the.outer and inner edges of the seat, as will be best understood byreference to Fig. 2 of the drawings; the pad bein thus su ported inproper position on sai seat. T e ront edge portions of the padded sheetsare formed as extended flaps e by means of which the sheets may bereadily and successively after use. In making up and molding the ad sothat it will be held in position on til may gum together the successiveslitted portions of the pad and then mold the same before the gum sets,thus roviding in the finished ad, turned in e ge portions that hook uner the water closet seat and are stiff enough to retain the pad in itsoperative position while the pad is in use and while the sheets arebeing torn ofl' one at a time.

M described device costs very little to pro uce, it is always in placeready for use and it provides a clean and sanitary seat for each andevery user of the water closet.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and wish to secure byLetters Patent In combination with a water-closet seat, a sanitary padincluding a plurality of sheets conformed to the general outline of thecloset-seat and having slitted marginal edges and said slitted marginaledges being coated with an adhesive and adapted to be molded inwardlyupon the underside of the closet-seat, the adhesive upon said edgesbeing plastic as said edges aremolded inwardly to provide for theiradherence to the closet-seat, said pad of sheets terminating in extendedflaps to serve asfinger-holds for grasping an individual attachment ofthe sheets.

HELEN E. LEIGHTON.

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